Monthly Archive:: August 2014

I tried various methods to add structured data to the breadcrumbs and found the method below the easiest to implement and most reliable. Inserting the crumbinfo as part of the label link caused display issues, so the safest implementation was to simply create a separate span section with the breadcrumb data. Open: app/design/frontend/default/YOURTHEME/template/page/html/breadcrumbs.phtml Note: if

Occasionally you may have an instance where a customer creates an order(s) as a guest and then later decides to set up an account. You want to link those previous orders to this particular customer. This method will also work if you want to move orders from an old customer id to a new one.

I was trying to find a simple, quick and easy way to add Google Structured Data (Rich Snippets) to the product pages without modifying tons of templates etc. The method below will get you up and running by adding a block of code at the end of one template – total time to make the change

Magento Tips & Techniques

Magento is one of the leading E-Commerce platforms. The information provided in this site hopefully will help you with some "tweaks" to enhance the shopping experience or assist the administrator.

The posts are in no particular order but are added whenever I think of a tip, technique, code snippet or change that I think might be useful to the community.

I've only included 'hacks' that can be implemented by someone with a general Magento structure knowledge and basic php skills. More sophisticated Magento modifications are available from numerous sites and the Magento Knowledge base.